O Mother, Where Art Thou? : an Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles

O Mother, Where Art Thou? : an Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles / Julie Kelso.

The Book of Chronicles silences women in specific ways, most radically through their association with maternity. O Mother, Where Art Thou? argues that Chronicles has two principal strategies of silencing women: disavowal and repression of the maternal body. The silencing of women is enacted by exclu...

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Main Author: Kelso, Julie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:BibleWorld.
Subjects:
Bible. > Chronicles > Feminist criticism.
Bible. > Chronicles
Feminist criticism
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Question of Silence
  • 1. “All Israelâ€? and the “Inclusive Ideology of Identityâ€? in Chronicles
  • Part I: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Hebrew Bible: “Introducingâ€? Luce Irigaray
  • Chapter 1 “The Monopoly of the Originâ€? and the Mute Foundation of Psychoanalysis: The Theoretical Interventions of Luce Irigaray
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Specularization of Woman-Mother in Philosophy
  • 3. The Lacanian Universe
  • 4. Psychoanalysis, the Economy of the Same, and the Monopoly of the Origin
  • 5. The Murder of the Mother and the Forgetting of Female Ancestries6. Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Remembering the Forgotten Mother: Engaging with Chronicles in an Irigarayan Mode
  • 1. Introduction: The Task of Analysis
  • 2. Method or Mode? An “Era of Knowledge Already Overâ€? or “the Era of the Spirit and the Bride?â€?
  • 3. The Praticable as Nuptial Tool
  • 4. Reading Silence
  • 5. Speaking Silence Poetically
  • 6. Conclusion: Going into Analysis “as Womanâ€? with the Book of Chronicles
  • Part II: Our Production of a Past, in the Present of Analysis: Engaging with the Book of ChroniclesChapter 3 Who Begets Whom? Disavowing the Maternal Body: 1 Chronicles 1â€?9
  • 1. According to You (1)â€? Shall We Begin at a Beginning?
  • 2. Birth Pangs?
  • 3. An Intriguing Inclusion on your Part
  • 4. From Edom to Israel, a Sharp Turn?
  • 5. A Smooth Production Line
  • 6. The Cracks Are Starting to Show
  • 7. Father â?? Son?
  • 8. The Passive of David
  • 9. Discontinuity
  • 10. Summary Analysis
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 The Debt-Free Masculine Subject: The Repressed Maternal Body in 1 Chronicles 10â€?2 Chronicles 361. According to You (II)â€? Shall We Begin Again?
  • 2. Ideal Israel Born of Man
  • 3. A Body in Bits and Pieces: The Murder of the (M)other?
  • 4. From Father to Son, a Blessed Machine
  • 5. Double-Sexing Sacred Space: The Temple in Chronicles
  • 6. “Silencingâ€? the Father?
  • 7. Return of the Repressed: The Three Diseased Kings of Chronicles
  • 8. The Problematic Representation of the Mother
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • Part IChapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Part II
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes
  • Index of References
  • Index of Authors

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